Donald Trump has scaled back his appearances on TV outlets🅘 as he pivots to the general election again🍌st Hillary Clinton.
Trump hasn’t appeared on CNN, MSNBC o🍎r the S𓆉unday TV talk shows for weeks, according to .
Nearly all the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s TV interviews have been on Fox News shows — “Fox and Friends,” Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.
During the Republican primary, the media-savvy Trump conducted numerous int꧟erviews to maximize free coverage and limit campaign costs on advertising, said Trump pal Roger Stone.
But Ston🦄e said curbing TV appearances is a “very smart” general election strategy.
“For the general election, you’ve got to be selective to control the message. In the primary with a lot of candidates, there’s a premium on doing interviews and getting free media coverage,” Stone said.
He said Trump doesn’t need to do interviews because his campaign rallies get virtually wall-to-wall coverage by cable outlets and are well covered by the🌊 mainstream media.
Even with the shift in strategy, Stone noted that the free-wheeling Trump is far more accessible than Clinton, who hasn’t held a press conference in all of 2016.
Trump also uses ꦦhis Twitter account to make stat🦩ements that are read by millions of people and picked up by the media.
Campaign advisers may be tr🐬ying to rein in T🤪he Donald’s media appearances to limit gaffes and have him focus on unifying the GOP for the convention.
But it’s hard to completely control the messag꧟e when the ไmessenger is Trump.
Trump, during a Post interview on Wednesday, claimed he gets𒆙 “very unfa♐ir press” from “the mainstream media, the liberal media, whatever you want to call it.”
He said “the big🔯 thing is I have♔ a good megaphone” to fight back.